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- Brixton's Ritzy cinema gets its own En Root vegan cafe
South London's plant-based group En Root is heading to Brixton. The brainchild of South Londoners Nish Modasia and his cousin Harshil Modasia, who also have places in Peckham and Clapham, the new cafe is being touted as the first vegan cafe to open in a UK cinema.
If you haven't been to one before, En Root focus on what they describe as an Indian fusion menu, inspired by Nish's Gujarati
... - Top Portuguese chef Henrique Sá Pessoa is opening JOIA at the Battersea Power Station
11/11/22 - Updated with the opening date
With the opening of London’s first art’otel comes details of what one of the restaurants will be in the hotel's Battersea Power Station site, and it’s good news for fans of Portuguese food. Alongside Italian restaurant Tozi will
... - Crudo's new Mare Street restaurant in Hackney is their biggest yet
The Crudo group are heading to Hackney for their largest opening yet. They started out in Fitzrovia with a grab-and-go spot back in 2019 before expanding to Old Street. Now they're hitting up Mare Street with their first fully-fledged restaurant.
If you love ceviche and Pisco Sours this is going to be your new Hackney hangout. As its name suggests, the big story here is ceviche. The menu features four ceviches, each with
... - Pedler finds a new home in Canary Wharf
They've been in Peckham for a while, but now neighbourhood restaurant Pedler has found a brand new neighbourhood in Canary Wharf.
They've moved from Peckham, and have taken over the space that used to be Shutters. As with the Peckham original, the focus will be on their produce, including fish direct from day-boat fishermen, so you can expect a changing seasonal menu. A taste of that
... - Tozi Grand Cafe is opening at Battersea's new art'otel
The openings at Battersea Power Station are coming thick and fast. On the heels of the main opening last month, we're now hearing about a new Italian coming to the area. TOZI has long been one of the good places to eat down near Victoria station. Way before any of the Nova openings, this critically
... - Oranj, a new natural wine bar and kitchen, to open in Shoreditch
Updated 7/11/22 with opening date
It was only a matter of time: Shoreditch is getting its first natural wine bar. Starting out in 2020 as a next-day-UK-wide-wine-delivery service during lockdown, Oranj is morphing beyond being an online portal to a dedicated bar and kitchen, where you can sip low-ABV reds from Jura while chatting with rotating guest chefs doing residencies in a
... - Spanish-Israeli restaurant Penelope’s is opening at Hotel Amano Covent Garden
Dancing on tables could be behaviour from your past (or present, we’re not judging) but it’s the vibe that the new Hotel Amano are looking to bring to their restaurant Penelope’s when it opens. The hotel group want to recreate the monthly parties that are apparently of renown at its Berlin site, selling out in minutes and promising inventive food and cocktails.
The
... - Dishoom head to Canary Wharf for their ninth restaurant opening
3/11/22 - updated with soft launch details
In news guaranteed to make a lot of folk in the financial district very happy, Dishoom have announced that Canary Wharf will be the site of their next restaurant opening.
It's been five years since one of London's best-loved restaurant groups opened a new place (that was Kensington back in 2017 if you're wondering). Their
... - Cavo is a huge new Mediterranean restaurant with roof gardens opening by Tottenham Court Road
2/11/22 - updated with the opening date
The Tottenham Court Road end of Oxford Street's days as the shabbier part of the shopping thoroughfare appears to be drawing to a close. Hard on the heels of the Elizabeth Line opening, the attendant developments at that end of the street are starting to unveil their plans, and many of them contain restaurants.
Tattu was the first to open back in April and we've also
... - Popeyes open their second London restaurant in Ealing
There were huge queues when Popeyes opened its first restaurant in Stratford, and that was just a concession in Westfield. Other than popping up for delivery-only dark kitchens across town, they hadn't opened any new restaurants in London - until now. They've gone to the opposite side of town to open in Ealing - something that will actually be their first standalone restaurant in
... - Henry Harris is back with Bouchon Racine and the Three Compasses in Farringdon
Updated 2/11/22 with pub opening date
It's been seven long years since chef Henry Harris closed the doors of his much-loved restaurant Racine in Knightsbridge. But now we can bring you the great news that Racine is coming back, albeit in a slightly different guise. Harris has joined forces with hugely respected restaurant director Dave Strauss (who you might remember from his decade at Goodman
... - New London restaurants opening in November 2022
November sees the return of a much-missed restaurant, the opening of a new Dishoom, a Boston seafood import and plenty more exciting new restaurants opening in London.
- Bacchanalia will be Richard Caring's new Mayfair restaurant on Mount Street
Updated 31/10/22 with the opening date
More details are being revealed about Richard Caring's next big Mayfair project, Bacchanalia.
The Greek and Italian restaurant certainly sounds like it'll be as eye-popping as Caring's other more recent openings, like Sexy Fish and The Ivy Asia. Artist Damien Hirst, who's worked with Caring on Sexy Fish and The Brasserie of Light, is
... - Berberè Pizza heads north to Kentish Town
They've been successful in Clapham and now Berberè Pizza have gone north for their next restaurant, opening in Kentish Town.
Berberè comes from Calabrian brothers Matteo and Salvatore Aloe and the Kentish Town site will once again focus on their sourdough pizzas, where their aim has been on creating a particularly crunchy crust. Traditional pizzas like the Marinara, Margherita and Napoli will
... - London's first Tasty by Greggs cafe in Primark on Oxford Street has a sausage roll swing
It's the partnership that brought us such sartorial delights such as the Greggs clogs this summer, now Primark have gone on step further and opened a Greggs cafe in their Oxford Street shop.
Tasty by Greggs will, they say, be "the most Instagrammable’ Greggs in the world". That sounds like hyperbole until you hear that it has a Greggs Sausage Roll swing. It's the second such cafe to open in
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